Quotes About Accountability

Elected office was never intended to become its own industry; it was to be filled with common men who, by way of still having jobs and families back home, maintained the connection to the problems of average, everyday people and thus could better serve.

The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It's like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I'll show up. I'll be there. And if it says 10:00, I'll be on stage at 10:00.

If you don't want a speeding ticket, don't speed.

Every player who plays at Bayern Munich knows that Bayern Munich is a particularly special club. Whenever we lose, then it is lashed onto almost immediately by the media, regardless whether it is a friendly or losing the away game in a Champions League tie 1-0.

Taking responsibility is not accepting blame instead of assigning it.

An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.

An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Youll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you dont have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Accountability is not a consequence. In order for it to become your competitive advantage, you must be willing to change what you expect from yourself and others.

An organization's values tell everyone how they will act inside the walls of the organization. You, as a leader, cannot tolerate any action that goes against those values.

Consequences Culturally, we have drifted away from accountability in this country for at least the last generation and perhaps longer. The consequences have been more dire than most people realize. —Richard Chambers

The single most important ingredient after you get the talent is internal leadership. It's not the coaches as much as one single person or people on the team who set higher standards than that team would normally set for itself.

We decide, on issues large and small, whether we will be bystanders or upstanders.

Listen," he said firmly. "If you hear nothing else, hear this. You work at the White House. There is no other room where a bunch of really smart people of sound judgment are getting together and figuring out what to do. It will be the scariest moment of your life when you fully internalize this: There is no other meeting. You're in the meeting. You are the meeting. If you have a concern, raise it.

Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

The evil that men do lives after them. Yes, and a good deal of the evil that they never did as well.

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.

I want everyone to tell me the truth, even if it costs him his job.